The 2020 ARCA Menards Series West was the sixty-seventh season of the ARCA Menards Series West, a regional stock car racing series sanctioned by NASCAR. It began on February 20 at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway Bullring with the Star Nursery 150, and ended on November 6 at Phoenix Raceway with the Arizona Lottery 100.
2020 marked the first season of this series under the ARCA banner.
When the season was put on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic, drivers from all NASCAR series, including a few ARCA Menards series drivers, participated in the inaugural eNASCAR iRacing Pro Invitational Series during that time.
Manufacturer | Team | No. | Driver | Crew chief |
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Ford | Sunrise Ford Racing | 6 | Trevor Huddleston [1] | Bill Sedgwick |
9 | Blaine Perkins | Jeff Schrader | ||
Toyota | Bill McAnally Racing | 16 | Gio Scelzi (R) [2] | John Camilleri [1] |
19 | Jesse Love (R) [2] | Kyle Wolosek 7 Jason Dickenson 4 | ||
99 | Gracie Trotter (R) [2] | Roger Bracken [1] | ||
Central Coast Racing | 13 | Todd Souza | Michael Muñoz | |
Performance P-1 Motorsports | 77 | Takuma Koga | Ron Norman 6 Gere Kennon Jr. 1 Will Harris 1 Chris Greaney 3 | |
Toyota 3 Chevrolet 8 | Hillis Racing | 27 | Bobby Hillis Jr. | Henry Manh 9 Ed Ash 2 |
On January 6, 2020, NASCAR released the schedule for the 2020 season. [7] As part of the unification of the East and West series with the ARCA Menards Series, the schedule decreased from fourteen races in 2019 to eleven races in 2020. The number of races was originally ten, however, an additional race at Utah Motorsports Campus was announced on March 3, 2020. [8]
As part of the unification of the East and West series with the ARCA Menards Series, the West will participate in the Sioux Chief Showdown, a ten-race series within the main ARCA series featuring drivers from each of the three branches. [9]
In terms of TV, NBC will continue to broadcast the West Series schedule on tape delay as they have in the past. [10]
No. | Race title | Track | Date |
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1 | Star Nursery 150 | Las Vegas Motor Speedway (Bullring), Las Vegas | February 20 |
2 | ENEOS/Sunrise Ford Twin 30 [8] | Utah Motorsports Campus, Grantsville | June 27 [11] |
3 | |||
4 | ENEOS 125 presented by NAPA Auto Parts | Irwindale Speedway, Irwindale | July 4 |
5 | ENEOS/NAPA Auto Parts 100 | Evergreen Speedway, Monroe | August 7 |
6 | ENEOS/NAPA Auto Parts 150 | Douglas County Speedway, Roseburg | August 8 |
7 | ENEOS 150 presented by NAPA Auto Parts | Colorado National Speedway, Dacono | August 22 |
8 | General Tire 150 [N 1] | Las Vegas Motor Speedway (Bullring), Las Vegas | September 26 |
9 | NAPA 125 presented by CashInTheCan.com | All American Speedway, Roseville | October 23 |
10 | NAPA/ENEOS 125 presented by West Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame | Kern County Raceway Park, Bakersfield | October 25 |
11 | Arizona Lottery 100 | Phoenix Raceway, Avondale | November 7 |
Note: The pole-winner also receives 1 bonus point, similar to the previous ARCA points system used until 2019 and unlike NASCAR.
(key) Bold – Pole position awarded by time. Italics – Pole position set by final practice results or rainout. * – Most laps led. ** – All laps led.
Pos | Driver | LVS | MMP | MMP | IRW | EVG | DCS | CNS | LVS | AAS | KCR | PHO | Points |
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1 | Jesse Love (R) | 2 | 1* | 2 | 1* | 4 | 3 | 1* | 3 | 4 | 8 | 14 | 513 |
2 | Blaine Perkins | 3 | 11 | 1** | 4 | 1** | 1* | 2 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 25 | 488 |
3 | Gracie Trotter (R) | 4 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1* | 10 | 5 | 9 | 482 |
4 | Trevor Huddleston | 5 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 472 |
5 | Gio Scelzi (R) | 10 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 27 | 460 |
6 | Todd Souza | 8 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 17 | 450 |
7 | Takuma Koga | 11 | 14 | 14 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 9 | 12 | 23 | 409 |
8 | Bobby Hillis Jr. | 13 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 8 | 13 | 11 | 20 | 399 |
9 | Holley Hollan (R) | 12 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 15 | 398 | |
10 | Bridget Burgess | 17 | 12 | 11 | 9 | 10 | 7 | 11 | 14 | 22 | 283 | ||
11 | Jack Wood | 7 | 15 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 10 | 24 | 269 | |||
12 | Taylor Gray | 4 | 11 | 7* | 1* | 3 | 202 | ||||||
13 | Lawless Alan (R) | 6 | 12 | 12 | 9 | 137 | |||||||
14 | Joey Iest | 14 | 11 | 13 | 12 | 126 | |||||||
15 | Kris Wright | 2 | 3 | 18 | 109 | ||||||||
16 | Kyle Keller | 4 | 6 | 78 | |||||||||
17 | Mason Diaz | 12 | 2 | 76 | |||||||||
18 | Will Rodgers | 5 | 8 | 75 | |||||||||
19 | Sam Mayer | 1* | 21 | 72 | |||||||||
20 | Brian Kamisky | 8 | 9 | 71 | |||||||||
21 | Devin Dodson | 5 | 16 | 67 | |||||||||
22 | David Gilliland | 1 | 48 | ||||||||||
23 | Ty Gibbs | 2* | 44 | ||||||||||
24 | Todd Gilliland | 4 | 40 | ||||||||||
25 | Drew Dollar | 5 | 39 | ||||||||||
26 | Johnny Borneman III | 6 | 38 | ||||||||||
27 | Justin Lofton | 6 | 38 | ||||||||||
28 | Dustin Ash | 8 | 36 | ||||||||||
29 | Corey Heim | 8 | 36 | ||||||||||
30 | Austin Reed | 9 | 35 | ||||||||||
31 | Keith Rocco | 10 | 34 | ||||||||||
32 | Howie DiSavino III | 11 | 33 | ||||||||||
33 | Brittney Zamora | 13 | 31 | ||||||||||
34 | Alex Sedgwick | 13 | 31 | ||||||||||
35 | Chris Lowden | 15 | 29 | ||||||||||
36 | Chris Hacker | 15 | 29 | ||||||||||
37 | Zach Telford | 16 | 28 | ||||||||||
38 | Ryan Repko | 16 | 28 | ||||||||||
39 | Cody Erickson | 19 | 25 | ||||||||||
40 | Zane Smith | 26 | 18 |
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